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• Socrates (pain assessment) — SOCRATES is a mnemonic acronym used by emergency medical services or nurses to evaluate the pain that a patient is in.Meaning of the acronymThe acronym is used to gain an insight into the patient s condition, and to allow the Health Care Provider …   Wikipedia

• Pain scale — Pain is the Fifth Vital Sign. [cite journal |author=Walid MS, Donahue SN, Darmohray DM, Hyer LA, Robinson JS |title=The Fifth Vital Sign What Does It Mean? |journal=Pain Practice|volume= |issue= |pages= |year=2008 |pmid= |doi=10.1111/j.1533… …   Wikipedia

• Pain — This article is about physical pain. For pain in the broader sense, see Suffering. For other uses, see Pain (disambiguation). Pain A sports player in pain. ICD 10 R52 …   Wikipedia

• Cancer pain — Pain is a symptom frequently associated with cancer. Cancer can cause pain by irritating or damaging nerves, by stimulating nociceptors (pain sensitive nerve fibers), or by releasing chemicals that make nociceptors respond to normally non painful …   Wikipedia

• Assessment of suicide risk — uicide risk assessment in practiceSuicide risk assessment is ethically complex: the concept of imminent suicide (implying the foreseeability of an inherently unpredictable act) is a legal construct in a clinical guise, which can be used to… …   Wikipedia

• Pain and suffering in laboratory animals — The extent to which animal testing causes pain and suffering, and the capacity of laboratory animals to experience and comprehend them, is the subject of much debate. [Duncan IJ, Petherick JC. [http://jas.fass.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long… …   Wikipedia

• Brief Pain Inventory — The Brief Pain Inventory is a medical questionnaire used to measure pain, developed by the Pain Research Group of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Symptom Evaluation in Cancer Care. See also * Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire External links *… …   Wikipedia

• Referred pain — is a term used to describe the phenomenon of pain perceived at a site adjacent to or at a distance from the site of an injury s origin. One of the best examples of this is during ischemia brought on by an angina pectoris, or heart attack. Even… …   Wikipedia

• Neuropathic pain — results from lesions or diseases affecting the somatosensory system.[1] It may be associated with abnormal sensations called dysesthesia, which occur spontaneously and allodynia that occurs in response to external stimuli. Neuropathic pain may… …   Wikipedia

• Medical Technology Assessment — (MTA) is the objective evaluation of a medical technology regarding its safety and performance, its (future) impact on clinical and non clinical patient outcomes as well as its interactive effects on economical, organizational, social, juridical… …   Wikipedia

• Migraine Disability Assessment Score — Der Migraine Disability Assessment Fragebogen und der sich daraus ergebende Migraine Disability Assessment Score (MIDAS) wurde entwickelt, um durch Migräne bedingte Fähigkeitsstörungen und Beeinträchtigungen messbar zu machen und dadurch unter… …   Deutsch Wikipedia